Join us on Monday Oct. 13 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Aaron Smith! Research in Smith's lab focuses on understanding the structure and function of metalloproteins involved in crucial biological processes. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...

The long-term goal of @cijilim.bsky.social's research group is to understand how mammalian telomeres safeguard the genome. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social @uwbiochem.bsky.social https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/ip_lim/

Join us on Oct. 6 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Brian Hie! @brianhie.bsky.social's lab conducts research at the intersection of biology and machine learning. This seminar is sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific. @hkws.bsky.social More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...

Very excited about next week's RNA Maxigroup seminar from Kristen Lynch @upenn.edu ! Thanks to @rnasociety.bsky.social , @uwbiochem.bsky.social, and the CMB program for sponsoring!

Brian Fox studies enzymes and their functions, using synthetic biology techniques to discover new enzymes that can break down recalcitrant polysaccharides. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social @uwbiochem.bsky.social https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/ip_fox/

Join us for Biochemistry Colloquium on Sept. 29 with Dr. Nancy Sullivan. Sullivan is an international leader in viral immunology, emerging diseases prevention, and infectious disease research. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...

This year, the Biophysics Instrumentation Facility in the Department of Biochemistry upgraded their equipment to keep the facility on the cutting edge of biochemical research and accommodate increased demands from labs across campus. Learn more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/09/03/b...

Congratulations to Chad Rienstra, who was named the Evelyn Mercer Professor in Biochemical Sciences @uwmadisoncals.bsky.social! More info: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/09/16/c...

Join us for Biochemistry Colloquium on Sept. 22 with Stephen Bell. The Bell Lab studies the assembly of multi-enzyme replisomes that replicate animal chromosomes and how events are regulated during the cell cycle to ensure genome maintenance. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...

New from Niko's lab along with @uwbiochem.bsky.social 's Tim Grant and Kevin Zhang www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Danielle Widner joins Erica Shu and Mario Pennella as biochemistry teaching faculty! Get to know more about Widner, Shu and Pennella in our Q&As with them below. biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/14/m...

Hey Biochem majors: Make sure you check out the @asbmb.bsky.social Student Chapter this semester! Grow your professional and practical skills alongside your peers while building community. Learn more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/05/08/a...

Every career has turning points — big or small. For an upcoming ASBMB Today series, we want your stories about navigating career transitions and shifting priorities. How did you adapt? What did you learn? Deadline: Oct. 15 [email protected]

Welcome to our newest cohort of Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) graduate students! If you see any new faces in the coming weeks, please take a moment to introduce yourself. For more about IPiB, visit: ipib.wisc.edu

Join us on Monday September 8 for the first seminar of the Fall 2025 Biochemistry Colloquium series! Professor Arthur Edison will be talking about annotation and quantification in #NMR metabolomics. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...

Turning ideas into impact takes more than discovery. Through WARF Accelerator and WARF Ventures, we help researchers like Faraz Choudhury bring life-changing technologies to market. Thanks to @onwismag.bsky.social‬ for sharing our story. #WisconsinInnovates

A new semester of RNA Maxigroup talks soon begins! Tao Pan visits next Tuesday. Thanks to @uwbiochem.bsky.social, @rnasociety.bsky.social, and UW-Madison CMB for funding.

We're excited to be kicking off the first week of classes with new undergraduate students and the familiar faces of returning students!

Welcome to Bryce LaFoya, who joins the UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about his research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/21/n...

Welcome to Hannah Wayment-Steele, who joins the UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about her research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/19/n...

Welcome to Wei Wei, who joins the Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about his research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/05/n...

Welcome to Bryce LaFoya, who joins the UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about his research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/21/n...

Welcome to Hannah Wayment-Steele, who joins the UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about her research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/19/n...

#ASBMBMemberMonday | Please join us in congratulating ASBMB member Alan Attie, who was named the Henry and Annrita Lardy Professor of Biochemistry by @warfnews.bsky.social! This award recognizes faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge. ow.ly/ZVvX50WHWSx

New preprint: we developed a method that uses phosphoproteome-derived peptide libraries (PhosPropels) for deep specificity profiling of phosphatases and phospholyases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In new study abroad program, undergraduate students will tackle biochemistry research in Japan. Learn more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/04/i...

Welcome to Wei Wei, who joins the Department of Biochemistry this month as an assistant professor! Learn more about his research, interests, and lab: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/08/05/n...

As an intern at Xylome, a Madison-based biotechnology startup, UW–Madison biochemistry graduate student Rob Mejia helped research ways to more sustainably purify yeast-produced palm oil. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/07/10/g...

Last year, the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison gained a high-powered, superconducting, 1.1 GHz magnet. Researchers have further optimized data collection on the magnet. "Now...we can unlock more of the magnet's capability," says scientist Songlin Wang biochem.wisc.edu/2025/07/24/r...

Excited to share our latest: we engineered the reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme for ATP-driven modification of C termini. Our tool mimics the logic of peptide bond formation in biology for precision modification of proteins in vitro. 🧪https://rdcu.be/ewN7C

Check out the website for the ASBMB 2026 national meeting! Lots of great science and lots of great session and theme (themes are new!) organizers from academia, industry, and government labs. www.asbmb.org/annual-meeting

New cryo-EM sample prep methods from @uwmadison.bsky.social‬ tackle key bottlenecks, enabling better protein preservation, faster workflows and higher-quality data. #WisconsinInnovates

The Raman Lab developed a tool to identify short patterns in phage genomes that make phages effective at killing bacteria. They then used the sequences to enhance phages' ability to kill E. coli strains implicated in food-borne outbreaks. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/06/13/r...

Officially tenured. Thank you to all the mentors who guided me, and to the trainees who made this possible with your ideas, hard work, and scientific joy.

Great work by Mugagga, Lainy and Jess from the Simcox Lab! SCD1 is known to regulate the production of monounsaturated fatty acids and development of diabetes in response of high carbohydrate diet. We showed loss of SCD1 also controls acylcarnitine levels.

Research from the James Ntambi and @judisimcox.bsky.social Labs reveals an enzyme’s important role in maintaining a healthy balance of lipids in our bodies. More on their latest research: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/07/02/r...

BACT Affiliate and @uwbiochem.bsky.social Prof. Vatsan Raman's Lab has a new tool to identify patterns in the genomes of bacteriophages crucial to the killing of bacteria. Previously unidentifiable, these patterns might offer more effective therapeutic applications. biochem.wisc.edu/2025/06/13/r...

Congratulations to Professor Alan Attie on being recognized as the Henry & Annrita Lardy Professor of Biochemistry, a @warfnews.bsky.social Named Professorship. Attie has devoted his career to advancing our knowledge of metabolism. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/06/26/a...

Congratulations Gina and Jericha for the well deserved recognition of their teaching and mentorship!

Congratulations to Integrated Program in Biochemistry graduate student Gina Wade and Biochem postdoc Jericha Mill, who we recognize for their excellence in teaching and mentorship! Wade and Mill work in the @judisimcox.bsky.social Lab. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/06/30/s...

Congrats to Weeks lab graduate student Debashrito Deb @thepeptidetailor.bsky.social, who won a poster prize at the Bioorganic GRC last week! Thanks to conference chairs @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social and Denise Field who knocked it out of the park with a memorable and inspiring meeting this year!

James Dahlberg received the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s American Innovator Award for his commitment to advancing federally funded inventions from the laboratory to real-world applications, including bringing several types of health screenings to homes and hospitals everywhere.

Research from the @judisimcox.bsky.social Lab uncovers new details about the relationship between metabolic disease, cells' energy expenditure, and how cells regulate the breakdown of a lipid. Learn more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/06/17/r...

Congratulations to Rohith Rajasekaran, who was awarded a @uwmadisoncals.bsky.social Distinguished Graduate Fellowship! In the @cellraiser.bsky.social Lab, Rajasekaran focuses on the MinDE reaction-diffusion system. Learn more about his research: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/06/12/r...

Congratulations to Professor Vatsan Raman, whose research aimed at transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders has received an award from @warfnews.bsky.social and Nexus NeuroTech Ventures! Learn more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/05/29/f...

Proud of the Simcox and Parks labs, at our annual retreat we spent the afternoon volunteering to remove invasive plants from the arboretum and making beds for shelter cats.

May was a whirlwind of Simcox lab celebrations. Congratulations to @hunger4science for a successful thesis defense and starting her new position at Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD, Thermofisher)! Andrea obtained the WISL Award for Communicating PhD Research to the Public.

Congratulations to Silas Miller, a graduate student in the Raman Lab, on being awarded an NIH F31 grant! Miller's research dives into mechanisms responsible for antibiotic resistance in infectious bacteria. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/05/30/s...

A breakthrough decades in the making: scientists from @uwbiochem.bsky.social engineered poplar trees to produce a high-demand industrial chemical, thanks to sustained federal investment in basic research. #WisconsinInnovates

Congratulations to the faculty and postdoctoral researchers who received awards from the UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association recently! Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/05/23/b...